Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Thurston, Harry - 2003

Doubleday Canada, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Island of the Blessed follows the footsteps of a Canadian-led international team of archaeologists as they penetrate the Sahara to unlock the secrets of Egypt's "everlasting oasis" -- Dakhleh. This fertile island in a sea of sand has been home to humans for almost half a million years. Archaeologists are using high-tech methods to decipher humankind's prehistory and have unearthed a perfect Old Kingdom town, replete with palaces and temples from the Golden Age of ancient Egypt, a stunning cache of mummies, a Roman-era archive of 10,000 papyri, and the world's two oldest books. As well, they are excavating an entire Roman city -- a "desert Pompeii" buried by the inexorable march of the Sahara.

Doubleday Canada, 2003. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 388 pages. Dust jacket in mylar protector.; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4

Doubleday Canada, 2003. 388 pp, 9 1/4" H. "(I)n the Western Desert, where decades might pass between rains, and showers often evaporate before they hit the ground, lies the 'other Egypt', where a story as old as the sands has lain for millennia. In this tiny island of green - with its shifting borders of deadly sand, verdant farms, and buried water - rests the whole of human history and its future. (The author) follows a Canadian-led international team of archaeologists as they sift the Sahara to unlock the secrets of the 'everlastting oasis', Dahkleh. This fertile and isolated place has been home to humans for nearly half a million years, and modern archaeologists are using high-tech methods to decipher how desert-dwelling Africans gave birth to the great Nile civilization. A perfect Old Kingdom town has been unearthed, replete with palaces and temples from the Golden Age of ancient Egypt. Awed archaeologists continue their excavation of an entire Roman city - a 'desert… Read More

Toronto, ON, Canada: Doubleday Canada, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, Green boards wit gilt letters. New and unread. Near fine. FIRST EDITION. DJ is crisp. 388 pages. 01

Doubleday of Canada. New in New dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover, illus.. 0385259697 . Book and DJ New. NO markings of ANY kind. New DJ not clipped ($25.95) ; 388 pages .

Doubleday Canada. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0385259697 . Tight crisp book, unmarked but for signature of the multi-talented Thurston title page; in crisp dust jacket with 3 cm repaired edgetear. ; 400 pages; Signed by Author .

Doubleday Canada. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Toronto: Doubleday, 2003 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by Mr. Thurston on the title page. 388 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Fine/Fine.